There is oxygen on Mars.

Not much. But it’s there.

If ‘by the way a serial sockpuppet banned me from places no one’s ever been’ is off-topic, what are we doing here?

Shitty I will cop to. Because fuck him.

Removed by mod

Saw the Lincoln assassination post and looked around like ‘what did you do?’

I can’t even guess what could have set someone off. Universal Monk recently banned me from all his dead little circlejerks, and I can infer that was probably about shrugging off Charlie Kirk’s death. This? No idea. Like PugJesus aimed for someone else and missed.

Can it do that?

… do you think you hallucinated it?

Never talking badly about assholes on this website isn’t a great idea either.

Came to mind after this baffling exchange.

A dozen people had incompatible takes somehow agreeing I was an absolute bastard. ‘Don’t sneer about them being wrong!’ I was agreeing with them. ‘They refuted your argument!’ They were agreeing with me. ‘Be polite, not snide!’ I thanked them? ‘You’re so mad at them!’ Never.

The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer.

It’s a wild leap to go from ‘be kind, god dammit’ to ‘only people on this website count.’ Fuck’s sake, the expanded rule makes clear it’s about vast groups. You gotta bend over backwards to insist ‘each other’ only means ‘those present.’

“Be excellent to each other.”

‘So the outgroup has no rights or moral value.’

I wanna throw you a monkey’s paw, then sit back and watch.

Sorry, was all that talk about class just roleplay?

Leftists are not a race.

Oh

my

god

it is

so tedious

to read your ‘well no but yes’

crap.

Oh sorry, casual use of expletives means I’m being emotional and unreasonable, and therefore wrong. Says guy comparing everyone who disagrees with him to Nazis. And chest-beating for consequence, as if getting banned from a website is the same as being sent to the camps. Quoting Webster without a fucking drop of irony, like I don’t know what complicit means, in the multiple synonyms-- nope.

Goodbye.

I will again note that I did not explicity call for any violence.

Explicitly.

I can commit outright felonies, stating my sincere opinions, without explicitly calling for violence.

People inferring meaning from the things you write is not some failure of honest comprehension. It’s a necessary skill we bring to every online interaction. And it’s not some “resting bitch font” situation, where a completely innocuous statement was twisted beyond recognition; you called people complicit for not overthrowing the government.

Complicit. Guilty. Criminal. Directly to blame for the worst abuses of a system clearly gone pear-shaped, because they don’t agree with your exact solution to the problems they plainly oppose.

You are calling people polite Nazis for not being 100.0% onboard with your specific political beliefs. Fuck off, guy. Regardless of what those beliefs are.

‘Surviving within a context means you are personally at fault.’

‘Damn, why don’t these stupid powerless libs we blame for everything rush to the ideology we take for granted? We’re on their side!’

How.

Uh huh.

Never wonder why typical people have no idea what you actually believe.

Ardent leftists making themselves difficult to distinguish from campist tankies.

Pretty sure it’s more the ‘or you’re complicit.’ Eye-rolling behavior. Even in the rare cases where it’s justifiable - not this one - that rhetoric does not work. If you give a shit about the impact your words have on people, you have to not do that.

In context, you said, if you don’t help me attack the people in power, you are among the people who must be attacked. I can see a moderator weighing the letter of the rules versus the spirit of the rules, at length, and finally sighing and clicking ‘I don’t want to deal with this.’ It shouldn’t be permanent because almost no bans should be permanent. But ‘take up arms or you’re a Nazi’ is big talk crossing any unwritten “come the fuck on” rule.

Unwritten rules are fine. This isn’t a court of law. It’s an internet forum. The whole reason we have human moderators, and care who they are, is because rigidly defining shitty behavior is fundamentally impossible. See any community that’s fallen for the cult of civility. Some places think being a polite Nazi is fine, but ‘fuck off, Nazi’ is intolerant and intolerable. Reasonable moderation requires reasonable moderators… reasoning about things. Any form of ‘you’re with me or you’re with the devil!’ can make them go, ugh, next.

What are you people talking about when you lob that insult?